See, you say that, but I'm calling it now. Mikasa is dead by the end of the series. Along with Levi. Eren is going to die at the very end. Armin, Connie, Jean, and Sasha are the only ones with any chance of getting out alive.

I'm just gonna point something out here. As much as that assumption may fit with the tone of the series it comes at the sacrifice of the themes. Eren, Mikasa, and Armin are the respective Soul, Heart, and Mind of each other. They each are lacking in certain areas made up for by the others and we got a glimpse of how losing one of them would play out back when Eren first got eaten.

Mikasa, as the heart, is primal and ruled by her baser instincts. She is all about kill or be killed and has no compulsion towards anything above her instincts as the mama-bear of the trio. When Eren dies she gives up too but since she's running on instinct she just can't bear self-destruction and continues to fight to live.

Armin is the mind. He is physically incapable and emotionally blind. He is headed down a dark path in the manga at the moment but his darkest moment was after he felt he got Eren killed. He tells the others to go on without him but to leave him a small sword to stay and fight with. Mikasa susses the **** out of what he had planned and tosses the sword away 'cus Armin was gonna go sepuku and kill himself.

The two of them are strong individually in some respects but both rely on Eren, the soul, to function as it is Eren that gives direction to their lives. Eren is the naive and eternally pure one who always sees a right and a wrong thing to do and is driven by his emotions, namely his hatred of the Titans.

By removing Mikasa Eren and Armin would probably get themselves killed. By removing Armin the two would be drowning in a sea of far-smarter operators, and by removing Eren they lose their purpose. By removing one of them permanently that theme is demolished thoroughly.

However, Attack on Titan is nothing if not a series focussed around misdirection. There's rarely a plot in the series that plays out the way you think and the series is constantly changing the direction it's headed in. I don't think it will compromise the theme but it isn't a sure thing by any means

I always thought of it as Eren is the heart, Armin is the brain, and Mikasa is the body. I guess it makes sense that none of them will die but at the same time, Eren can hold his own in a fight and is driven by emotion. If his sister or possible love interest, not sure. is killed, he is going to go completely ******** and be as capable, if not more capable than Mikasa in a fight. Just as a prediction, with the tone of the series, I foresee it ending with Eren's death.

I still maintain that Levi is going to die. He isn't a MAIN character, (A major, but not main character.) he is a fan-favorite and easily the most overpowered THING in the entire series. With the recent revelation of his last name, there is clearly some big character reveal coming up and I've noticed enough patterns with his character arc as compared to other media that his death is almost a sure thing. It would be a shock to me if he lived.

The tone of the series is ultimately one of hope within the hopeless. Whilst everything is going on the characters who fight and do not give up on their hope or exploit other characters are still shown to be the good guys and in the right. There will likely be a lot of people lost along the way but that's not in contrast to the hopeful tone at all, because it teaches that hope needs to withstand the assaults of the hopeless.

If Mikasa and Eren die then what has hope gotten them? It's saved people but lost them their lives, all their friends, everyone they ever loved as well. The series is about how hope springs eternal not about how **** the world is.

Plus Eren is already stronger than Mikasa by far since... titan. And if you read the Manga you'll see there's slightly more to Eren's Titan than the 'Rogue Titan' name that it was preemptively branded with.

If Mikasa was to die then the message of the series will be this. "Hope will get you through but be prepared to lose a part of yourself along the way." Since all three of them add up to functioning as one cohesive unit. If Eren and Mikasa died then so would Armin since... he's about as emotionally stable as the leaning tower of paranoia.

And honestly Heart/Soul/Body/Brain it all comes to nought since they're all words. So long as they convey the same meaning there's no point in quibbling over how the meaning is conveyed when the difference is a letter or two.

It's in preproduction right now so I'm going to guess 2016. The next season is just rumored for 2015, it hasn't been officially confirmed yet. That said, Funimation would have to be pants-on-head retarded to not get a second season going. The amount of money they can make off of this IP is beyond ridiculous.

True. Everyone knows about Attack on Titan so all their marketing is already done. They just need to wait for enough source material to be finished and they can start on Season 2. Although, if they were REALLY smart, they could pull a Full Metal Alchemist. Write their own ending to the story and when the manga finishes, restart the anime a la FMA: Brotherhood. Two times the money. :3

I finally watched this show today, and does she really like Eren romantically? She's clearly obsessed with him, but the only thing I saw that might show romantic love was when that guy told her save her boyfriend and she blushed and eventually said he's my family. Its driving me a bit crazy, and I really want to see some progress between them in season 2, any hope or canon info that might happen?

In chapter 52 I think it looks like there's no hope so she says how glad she is that she met Eren and that he gave her that scarf and leans in to kiss him but he stands up and puts himself in between Mikasa and the titan about to kill them and says he wants her to be with him forever. Take that however you choose.

From the anime, you can't really be sure. It's implied, but nothing to confirm it. But in the manga, it's kinda conformed. I don't wanna spoil anything, but read the manga. If you don't care about spoilers in chapter 50, she thanks him for being with her and for wrapping the scarf around her, and leans in to kiss him, but before she does, he turns around saying "Something simple like that? I'll wrap it as many times as I need to, for you." So we know Mikasa has feelings for him, but we're still not sure if Eren does.